Smartphone maker Blu Products has had a hard
year, dealing with allegations of preloading spyware on its devices more than once in as 12-month span. While last November, Blu had
admitted a third-party FOTA software vendor was responsible was transmitting Blu user data to servers in China, the company has refuted the
most recent claim, calling it a "false alarm" and announcing its products are
back on sale on Amazon after their removal last week by the online retailer.
To recall, Blu had last week come under fire after a
report by KrytoWire came to light - the same firm that spotted the user data transmissions last year - claiming that despite the remedial measures employed by the smartphone maker, the Blu Grand M firmware was still transmitting user data to servers in China. Last week, the company refuted this claim in a lengthy statement, but not before Amazon stopped listing its products.
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